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Legally Blonde UK Tour

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Legally Blonde UK Tour Book Now

Everyone’s favourite pink leading lady is back as Elle Woods once again returns in a new Legally Blonde UK Tour. When Elle is dumped by her boyfriend Warner Huntingdon III for a more serious girlfriend she puts down the credit cards and picks up the books. Packing up her trusty pooch, Bruiser, she bags herself a place at the prestigious Harvard Law School to try and win him back. With the support of her new friends she learns that you can be both smart and fashionable. This new tour of Legally Blonde will feature Rita Simons best known for playing Roxy Mitchell in BBC’s Eastenders playing Paulette, Lucie Jones, who is the UK’s representative in this years Eurovision Song Contest will play Elle, whilst Bill Ward, star of Coronation Street and Emmerdale will play Professor Callahan. Also in the cast are: David Barrett (Emmett), Liam Doyle (Warner), Laura Harrison (Vivienne), … Read more

Ball And Boe To Perform at Greenwich Music Time – On Sale 9am Today

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Book now for Michael Ball and Alfie Boe as part of Greenwich Music Time 2017

Michael Ball and Alfie Boe are to perform together Again as part of this year’s Greenwich Music Time and BritishTheatre.com would like to invite you to book during our presale period starting at 9am Wednesday morning. This amazing event will be held at The Old Naval College in Greenwich on 30 June 2017. Michael and Alfie said: “We have always wanted to work together, it was just a case of getting the timing right. We are so grateful to all our fans who have supported us and everyone involved for believing in us. We are literally having the best time and are so happy with the success of the album and the tour” Following the success of their platinum-selling album Together, which entered the UK charts at number 2 on its release last November, before going on to be the biggest-selling album of 2016 and the Christmas number1, double Olivier … Read more

FLASH SALE: Stepping Out

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Stepping Out is a funny and heart-warming comedy which follows the lives of seven women and one man as they tap away the strains of their daily lives at a weekly tap-dancing class culminating in a tap-tastic charity gala. Starring Amanda Holden, the stellar cast also includes Tracy-Ann Oberman, Tamzin Outhwaite, Nicola Stephenson and Natalie Casey. Stepping Out is directed by Maria Friedman. Stepping Out was the winner of the Evening Standard Comedy of the Year Award, 1984. It was also made into a musical, which became a film in 1991, starring Liza Minnelli and Julie Walters. Book before 26 February 2017 and save up to 37% on normal ticket price. Was £62.50 Now £39.50, saving 35% Was £59.50 Now £39.50, saving 33% Was £20.00 Now £12.50, saving 37% Valid Wednesday Matinee and Monday- Friday Evening performances from 1 to 23 of March 2017 BOOK TICKETS FOR STEPPING OUT

INTERVIEW: Frances Ruffelle Talks The Wild Party and New Musicals

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Frances Ruffelle to star as Queenie in The Wild Party at The Other Palace

We had a brief moment during rehearsals for The Wild Party to talk to British Musical Theatre star Frances Ruffelle about new musicals, The Wild Party and her attraction to new talent. What Is The Wild Party About? It’s a very debauched poem written in the 1920’s at a time when prohibition forced people to hold parties in their own homes with drug taking, bath tub gin and a lot of free love. It’s about a racy 24 hours in the life of New York chorine Queenie. She’s unsatisfied with her life. Having come to New York to make it big, she’s now stuck with her lover Burrs who is violent and nothing has quite worked out as she planned. Unhappy, she gets her fulfilment from multiple lovers and partying her life away. In the midst of the partying, she has a revelation that she needs to find her own … Read more

Sand In The Sandwiches UK Tour

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Edward Fox is to play John Betjeman in a new one man play called Sand In The Sandwiches exploring the life and work of the twentieth century’s most treasured poet. Sand In The Sandwiches comes to the Theatre Royal Haymarket for a strictly limited season fresh from a sell-out UK tour. Sand In The Sandwiches celebrates a man famous not only for laughter and light verse, but for his unfortgettable poetry, his passions and his sense of purpose. Sand In The Sandwiches presents a hugely entertaining insight into the world of Britain’s Poet Laureate. Triple BAFTA winner Edward Fox brings much-loved irreverent writer Betjeman’s vivacious personality and poetry to life. Written by Hugh Whitemore and directed by Gareth Armstrong, Sand In The Sandwiches will visit Northampton before London, followed by an extended UK tour visiting Cambridge, Malvern, Woking, Brighton and Bath. Sand In The Sandwiches will play for one week … Read more

Extra Performance Added As Jersey Boys Nears End Of London Run

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Book tickets for Jersey Boys

As Jersey Boys nears the end of its impressive run in London’s West End, producers have announced that an extra performance of the show has been added on Thursday 23 March at 3pm. The announcement of an extra performance comes in the same week that Jersey Boys set a new house record for ticket sales in the history of the Piccadilly Theatre. Now the sixth longest-running musical in West End history, Jersey Boys will close on Sunday 26 March 2017 following nine years of performances first at the Prince Edward Theatre and then at the Piccadilly Theatre. The London cast of Jersey Boys is led by Matt Corner as Frankie Valli, Simon Bailey as Tommy DeVito, Declan Egan as Bob Gaudio and Matt Hunt as Nick Massi. Dayle Hodge plays the role of Frankie Valli at certain performances. Also in the cast are Amelia Adams-Pearce, Nicola Brazil, Stuart Dawes, Mark … Read more

Hair 50th Anniversary Production To Play London’s Vaults

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Hair 50th Anniversary Production comes to The Vaults London

Following its acclaimed season the Hope Mill Theatre in Manchester, Jonathan O’Boyle’s 50th Anniversary production of Hair will transfer to The Vaults from Wednesday 4 October 2017 for a limited season. Heralded as being a mini-Woodstock, this unique production of Hair will take advantage of the immersive nature of the space complete with hippie flower power, iconic artwork and psychedelic innovative creatives. There will also be 60’s themed pop-up restaurants and drinks, stalls selling vintage 60s and tie dye clothes, 60s smiley badges and memorabilia, hippie wigs and flower headdresses, vinyl’s – everything needed for a legal high. Hair will be presented in an intimate 200 seats space, where audiences will experience Hair in all its glory, still as relevant today as it was 50 years ago. It’s 1967 and Hair‘s hippie-hood youngsters live as The Tribe, in the East Village of New York: yearning to change the world, questioning … Read more

Nashville In Concert UK Tour

Concerts, News, Touring

Stars from the television series Nashville are heading back to the UK om June 2017. The Nashville in Concert UK Tour will feature Clare Bowen, Chris Carmack, Charles Esten and Sam Palladio performing original material and songs from the hit TV series. This will be the second tour that the cast of Nashville has undertaken in the UK following the sell-out success of the first tour. Since its debut, the show has inspired multiple Music of Nashville soundtracks as well as a Christmas album, collectively selling more than a million soundtracks and millions more single tracks to date. Steve Buchanan, president of Opry Entertainment, said: “Our first international tour proved how tremendously popular Nashville and its cast are beyond the US. “We look forward to more sell-out shows this summer featuring cast members who are not only amazing actors, performers, and songwriters, but who have also become incredible ambassadors for … Read more